An Endocrinologist peeks through, RAI disaster, and why synthetic T4 is only a mirror image

The clueless Cuckoo’s Nest of Endocrinology just goes on and on, according to repeated negative comments by thyroid patients in groups after they have visited with an Endocrinologist. i.e. you will be put on T4-only and dosed by the TSH, then told you are just fine and only need an antidepressant or statin or BP med.

But in a recent issue of the Clinical Thyroidology For Patients (A Publication of the American Thyroid Association), Volume 5, Issue, 5, 2012, there comes the question: Should patients with no functional thyroid gland be treated with both thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3)?

Of course, the question is like asking “Should those starving be given food? ” The article starts out stupid, stating (in bold):

“…the absence of T3 production by the thyroid can be overcome by maintaining higher circulating T4 levels, resulting in normal circulating levels of T3. This is why T4 in the form of levothyroxine is the main treatment for hypothyroid patients”. Patients all too well know how ludicrous this is.

“Recent studies have generally found that there is no clinical advantage in adding T3 to the usual T4 replacement regimen.” What about this study which reveals that there can be inadequacy of peripheral deiodination of T4 to T3 in some, or this study which found no support for the hypothesis that people with symptoms of hypothyroidism but thyroid function tests within the reference range benefit from treatment with 100 µg thyroxine daily, or this study which found that triiodothyronine added to thyroxine improved mood and neuropsychological function, and more.

But then comes the little peek from the door by the MD author after mentioning the 2011 study titled “Levothyroxine monotherapy cannot guarantee euthyroidism in all athyreotic patients.” The concluding paragraph has this in it:

The present study identifies a subgroup of hypothyroid patients, namely those whose thyroid was surgically removed who do not have normal FT4 and F3 levels despite normal TSH levels on T4 alone. What is not shown by this study is whether or not combination therapy (T4 plus T3) is beneficial in these patients. Further studies are needed to sort this out.

Further studies are needed?? They are already out there! Besides, if 99% of Endocrinologists would use the proverbial toothpick to open up the eyelids of their minds, they just might notice all the continuing hypothyroid symptoms their patients have while on T4-only meds whether STUDIES prove anything or not. WAKE UP!!

MAN-MADE SYNTHETICS ARE ONLY A MIRROR IMAGE OF THE REAL THING: another reason why T4-only sucks

Scientists have always been able to “synthetically” duplicate substances by creating the same mix of molecules, aka a synthetic copy of the original compound. That’s what “levothyroxine” (l-Thyroxine) is–a man-made copy of T4 (Thyroxine). Synthroid is an example. But it’s unfortunately a mix of the “left handed” nature-made combination of molecules, aka L-(Laevorotary), along with the synthetic, man-made “right handed” version, aka D-(Dextrorotary), i.e. the latter is a mirror-image, not a direct image, according to this article.

The author explains that useless “waste” of what is synthetic is in the T4-only pill, and it doesn’t act like a hormone. So though your blood will show you have an increased level of ”levothyroxine”, it’s not the same as having an increased level of the “natural” t4. And of course, we as thyroid patients also know that the body is NOT meant to live on a storage hormone alone, even if it was pure. We NEED the direct T3 that natural desiccated thyroid provides. So with natural desiccated thyroid, we don’t get the waste of synthetics, AND we get T4, T3, T2, T1 and calcitonin!

I loved what thyroid patient Joy McHargue said to someone on the STTM Facebook group when asked what to do about high stress. Her answer: Pray, salt, magnesium, rest, adaptogens of your choice, Vitamin C, talk about the stress to a calming person, take time away from the stress doing something fun regularly, epsom salt baths, fresh air…

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Read this and then googled “synthroid isomer” and this is what I got.
Levothyroxin (L-thyroxin) is a synthetic hormone of thyroid gland; left-rotating isomer of thyroxine (T4);
I guess that L in l-3,3′,5,5-tetraiodothyronine sodium stands for Levo i.e. left rotating isomer. The French link to the mixed isomer forms pertains to a Merck product.

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Thyroid Madness Definition according to many reported patient experiences:

Treating most hypothyroid patients with T4-only meds; offering no options.

Dosing solely by the TSH and the total T4, or using the outdated "Thyroid Panel".

Prescribing anti-depressants in lieu of evaluating and treating the free T3.

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